Downtown Glens Falls — August 1895

Here’s a window display you are not likely to see in downtown Glens Falls now.

“A forty-pound turtle, captured at East Lake George last Saturday by Robert Menzies, is on exhibition in the store window of C. H, Hitchcock & Co., 115 Glen Street,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Aug. 7, 1895. “The shell is of a spectacular greenish hue, and to make an effective setting the background of its habitation consists of a wall of Green Turtle tobacco.”

In other August 1895 downtown Glens Falls news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• “A showy covered wagon attracted considerable attention on the streets yesterday afternoon. The sides and rear were ornamented with oil paintings representing kindness and cruelty. The rig is the property of O. Barelle, originator pf the movement to organize a branch of the Humane Society here,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 13.
• “Miss Helen Ball, who has spent several months in New York learning an improved system of dress making, has returned to her home on Hunter Street,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 9.
• “Brick sidewalks are being laid along the front and side of R. A. Little’s property at the corner of Glen Street and Grant Avenue,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 9.
• “W. E. Lawrence, agent for the Favorite Desk and Seating Company, yesterday, placed sixteen new seats in the central school building, Glen Street,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 27.
• “There will be a clam chowder at Thomas Mansfield’s, 48 Montcalm Street, under the auspices of the Industrial Club on Friday evening, Aug. 30. All are invited,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 29.

One-hundred-seventy people attended chowder, The Morning Star reported on Sept. 2

• “G. W. Granger will open a grocery and provision store at №101 South Street tomorrow morning,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 30.
• “William Fitzgerald, recently in the company of Bibby & Ferguson, has purchased of Daniel Riordan the saloon at 95 Glen Street, and will take possession today,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 30.
• “A telephone line has been placed at the office of The Collins House,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 30.
• “A telephone line has been placed at the office of Singleton & Sullivan, South Street,” The Morning Star reported on Aug. 31.

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